December 1990. Go Full Go! It is located at the top of Los 40 Principales with Espaldas mojadas. formed by the trio Nacho and Javier Campillo with Rafael Callejo released his third album that year, followed by a second album with EMI Spanish romance (1989), the successor of the debut Spanish mixed (1988), released with Twins Productions. Both the LP and the single of the same name (wet ridges) was the commercial pinnacle of Tam Tam Go! However, like many other artists of the time, they signed a contract that “snapped” the publishing rights of the magazine. wet ridges.
Song
“I left my home / They are persecuting me and I don’t know what happened to me / I’m going without a passport and without a visa / I’m sailing against the current and the wind…”. Nacho Campillo explains that the source of the song is the authentic and true version. wet ridges It comes from a trip she took between 1980 and 1981, accompanying a friend of hers named actress Patricia Adriani, who would later become the protagonist of the video clip for that theme. “The possibility of making a film in the United States occurred to him and he convinced me to accompany him as his manager, as he does not speak English well and I had just arrived from London. I wore a suit, went to Los Angeles, and represented for fifteen days. the name of the movie was good king harry and Ken Kwapis and produced by Brian Grazer.
Patricia auditioned successfully, but the movie was never made. Campillo continues his story: “We stayed in Beverly Hills, they put us in a limo… The producer paid for it all. we met all staff From the Beverly Hills Hotel, which is Mexican. One of them told us the story of his life, how he got there by crossing the Rio Grande., without paperwork and illegally. Nacho sketched some of the lyrics on his return flight, and years later, around 1986, when they put together Tam Tam Go!, the full lyrics were revealed. “I wrote the lyrics and music, but we finished the song as a group on a volume check. My brother Javier did the chorus and Rafa did the song. riff famous. We’re building together.”
Knowing the other version of your birth wet ridges You don’t need a plane. Javier Campillo, Nacho’s brother and a member of Tam Tam Go!, talks about smugglers crossing the Caya River to transport coffee. Portugal to Badajoz: “The way we composed was a bit unusual. We’ve always had a certain attachment to society: homosexuality, women’s clothing, unemployment, old age… And we wanted to make an immigration song. “My brother came with the idea of Los Angeles and I came with the idea of Portugal, but we did it together.” “It’s true that we carry boundaries in our DNA,” adds Nacho. “We lived a few kilometers from Portugal, and as kids of eight or nine, we used to watch the Caya River from our balcony and watch smugglers cross with coffee in their backpacks. I think it was in our subconscious, and that’s where the need to make that song came from.”
Forever
Despite wet ridges Designed in the early 80’s, it wasn’t released on the LP of the same name until 1990. wet ridgeswhere topics such as crime of passion, jennifer bones, this is how the pelican dances, paper woman anyone an oath between you and meIn addition to the deductions in English (better ways, this payo And kiss me like this) or partially in the author’s native language (By plane to Asuncion). “We started singing in English and put Spanish ideas aside until we decided to sing in Spanish a little before 1990.” According to Nacho, Spanish romance sold much less Spanish mixedShipment of 200,000 records. However, he doubts they will reach 50,000 copies sold in the second installment. “We had a gold record, but it was empty,” he adds. “At EMI we had Javier Lozano from A&R and Carlos San Martín with marketing director Ricardo Ortiz. When did it happen? They started asking us to sing in Spanish.”. “We sold 37,000 units. Spanish romance. Cadena SER said that she will introduce groups that sing in Spanish, not those who sing in English. So they stopped, they didn’t let us promote, and no song from that record ever hit number one, so we had to do another one, which is wet ridges”, adds Javier Campillo.
They forced us to sign with their publisher. They sneaked us in there; we signed the copyright of the songs for life and got 50%
Full Tam Go at EMI! they continued with Elizabeth is marriedits representative from the time twins. “He was the one who got into a fight with Paco Martín later, because he wanted to force us to record another album under the same conditions as the first album. We had a contract and an extension. He could have improved the contract a little, but we refused. Paco rebounded, sued us, we went to court and we won.” Then EMI came up with a better contract and Tam Tam Go! signed for three albums: Spanish romance, wet ridges And life and color. “We didn’t have much of an idea as we had just arrived. We’ve been in the industry for a few years, but the contract with EMI was good for the time, according to Isabel, who was very aggressive.” They got an advance of 6 to 7 million pesetas and 10% of the royalties, Campillo says, “but they forced us to sign with their publisher. They sneaked us in there; we signed the copyright of the songs for life and got 50%.” You can’t sign a contract for life Nacho dares that they will definitely get some of the rights back if they start suing, but regrets it’s not easy.
On April 12, 1996, a new law was passed that changed everything. This allowed them to more advantageously sue with companies and publishers. “We’ve won 2-3 cases in our lives and it’s exhausting to go through one more case, even if the justice system approves of the artist, because they’ve been confusing us for years. I have my own publishing house and I work with Peer Music which is very nice to me but publishers and companies stole a lot from artists”. From then on, 60% went to the author and the remaining 40% to the publisher. “But it’s an implied rule,” says Javier Campillo.